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by mhh__ 1989 days ago
The vendor tools are so bad. I don't want to download a 500Meg program just to change my mouse DPI or make the keyboard light up
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Indeed. I accidentally installed some kind of an utility suite for my motherboard and it instantly started 13 processes. I guess they had different teams working on different parts of the app and everyone just wrote another process? There were even multiple updaters for stuff made by one company.

The worst part was the new drivers being loaded. Searching driver names led me to multiple exploit POCs allowing all kinds of nastiness. Some of them were patched but overall I got the feeling that RGB etc driver quality is awful.

I wish HW manufactures would at least use static colours as a default choice.

Logitech is probably the worst offender with their windows app being buggy as hell and sometimes pegging one CPU core to 100%. Wtf?
Corsair is worse, they install a driver that frequently blue screens.
At least with Logitech you have the option to use the software once to flash your desired DPI to your mouse and be done with it and remove the software.